Missouri Department of Conservation

Partners in Grassland Conservation

Please join one of our partner's efforts! To help fund our work, call Prairie Chicken Recovery Leader Max Alleger at 660-885-8179, ext. 247.

The Missouri Grasslands Coalition is a partnership of agencies and groups that recognize prairie chickens as an indicator of healthy grassland ecosystems. Our strategy includes public education and active grassland management that meets the economic needs of local residents and the habitat needs of native plants and wildlife within six landscapes called Grasslands Coalition Focus Areas (GCFAs). We deem these six landscapes to have the greatest potential for maintaining greater prairie chickens and other grassland-dependent species. Missouri Grasslands Coalition member entities include the following:

• Audubon Missouri
• Audubon Society of Missouri
• Conservation Federation of Missouri
• Missouri Coalition for the Environment
• Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation
• Missouri Conservation Opportunity Areas
• Missouri Department of Natural Resources
• * Missouri Native Plant Society
• * Missouri Prairie Foundation
• * Natural Resources Conservation Service
• * Osage Valley Resource Conservation and Development Council
• * Ozark Regional Land Trust
• * Partners in Flight
• * Pheasants Forever
• * Quail Forever
• * Quail Unlimited
• * Society for Range Management
• * Southwest Missouri Resource Conservation and Development Council
• * The Nature Conservancy–Missouri
• * University of Missouri-Columbia Commercial Agriculture Program
• * US Fish and Wildlife Service